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  1. Re:What about Xcode? on Open Source Licensing and the App Store Model · · Score: 1

    Can you get the source via the App Store? If not, it's a violation of the GPL.

    They have to offer you the source via exactly the same means as the binaries.

    100% WRONG!!

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

    3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

    1. a} Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
    2. b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
    3. c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
  2. English is a cruel language:

    Perhapth he meant a thtriped, horthe-like animal, and he hath a lithp, you inthenthitive clod.

    Fixed that for you

  3. How to help on King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    If you are a registered Ham Radio operator, this site has a quick-and-easy form to generate a letter to your representative in congress to oppose the bill.

  4. Re:Does not Affect Prior Art Doctrine on Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    You realize PTO agents are necessarily "tech people," right? You don't need a law degree to be one, but you absolutely must have a technical degree

    What I mean to say is that the process is run by the lawyers and it is not easy to find good tech people (although, yes, they do exist). I know people who are examiners with technical degrees and people who are lawyers (as I mentioned in my comment). Many of the patent "tech people" I know went to work for the USPTO because after they got their tech degrees, they did not feel that they would be able to do (invent or implement) their own work, so instead they would study other peoples' work. (I have not, however, talked to anyone who would say that on the record.)

  5. Re:Does not Affect Prior Art Doctrine on Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill · · Score: 1

    While this might be the intent of the new rules, here is why some people are skeptical:

    First, how many small companies/individuals can afford to hire a patent attorney to help them wade through the many forms required to request a re-examination of a patent for prior-art?

    Second, once the patent has been issued the big corporation (with in-house council and the budget for lawyers) usually wins (as the Eastern District of Texas has shown many times).

    They can file in court in a district that is known to be friendly to patent trolls corporations and/or run up large legal bills that a smaller company/individual would not be able to pay.
     

    Remember, the law requires all patents to be "novel" and "nonobvious".

    In all seriousness, when did that stop anyone?

    Ok, I know that those patent cases I linked to are not necessarily about prior art, but on examination by a tech person instead of a lawyer, many would be thrown out before they got very far.
    ---
    Final note, I discussed this with a "Senior Legal Advisor" in the Office of Patent Legal Administration of the US Patent and Trademark Office, so I am pretty sure I got it all right.

  6. Re:Not much to do on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    What I put in the email:
    Name on account
    Service Address
    Account Number

    Sent it to:
    Verizon Business Technical Support
    Support Email Address : help4u@verizonbusiness.com
    Toll Free Support Number: 800-900-0241 options: 2-1-2
    Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8am-8pm ET

  7. Re:Not much to do on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 2

    You also need your ISP to change the reverseDNS records or else you end up on many RBLs. Unfortunately, not many ISPs are willing to do that.

    Verizon is more than willing to change the DNS PTRs for anyone who calls the business support line and claims to be from the business that has the service.
    When I called for the company I work for, they asked for our billing address and phone number, nothing more (and those are public information).

  8. Re:Still problematic on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Firefox obviously won't install the addon if its specified "max version" is lower than the version you're using. So I have a couple of addons that I use in Firefox 4, where I've had to manually change the "max version" to FF4. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. More to the point, it's kind of annoying to deal with, and I don't expect your Average Joe user to go around editing XML files just to see if it's possible that their favorite addon works.

    That is what this extension is for: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/

  9. Not really news on Woman Caught Smuggling 44 iPhones In Her Stockings · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, frequent travelers through customs in Israel know that it is not unusual to see people being detained for bringing all kinds of undeclared items into the country.
    The reason that it is more prevalent in Israel than many other countries (yes, no source for this besides personal and hearsay experience) is the same as the reason that security lines in Israel are faster than any other airport I have been to: Israeli security guards are heavily trained in the art of behavioral profiling.

    Just an example: Lets say I am a college student flying in/out of the country. They ask me a few questions (as they do for everyone), decide that I am not suspicious and let me go through the express security lines. If they have any suspicions about anything at all, your bags go through the 3D X-ray machines and you get to have a short one-on-one chat with a security officer. The same goes for customs: If you are in the Green line they are watching you and will stop you. They are very good at finding the people who are trying to hid something.

    (I am having a really hard time finding the study that I read comparing the effectiveness and methods of various customs agencies around the world. It was probably around two years ago which makes it harder to find in the mess of search results about this iPhone smuggler.)

  10. Re:Google gets it right on Amazon Bulk-Email Service Could Lure Spammers · · Score: 2

    I can add that this is not a one-of-a-kind result. We have used postini for years and had the same great effects.

  11. Re:So ... on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 2

    In North America, phone numbers are always in the form NXX-NXX-XXXX, with N being a digit from 2-9 and X being a digit from 0-9.
    Instead of 10,000,000,000 permutations, you only have 6,400,000,000
    It is called NANPA and there are a few other reserved numbers mixed in (for example, in an NXX group, both Xs can not be 1 to avoid confusion with N11 services such as 911).
    Wikipedia also has a good article about this.

  12. Re:Airplane Mode on Man Hits Teenager On Airplane For Using iPhone · · Score: 1

    It does not matter.
    As any (slightly-educated) flight attendant will tell you, the reason for turning off electronic devices is to get rid of any distractions that will stop a passenger from hearing instructions given by the flight crew.
    Airplane mode or not, if there was a fire on the plane and you have your ear-buds in (or worse, noise-cancelling headphones), you will likely as not be burned to a crisp, because you will not hear the instructions from the crew.

    Anyway, as far as the purpose and usefulness of "Airplane Mode":
    From the FAA Advisory Circular 91-21.1B (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCircular.nsf/list/AC%252091.21-1B/$FILE/AC%252091.21-1B.pdf)

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) currently prohibits the use of cell phones while airborne. Its primary concern is that a cell phone, used while airborne, would have a much greater transmitting range than a land mobile unit. Their use could result in unwanted interference to transmissions at other cell locations since the system uses the same frequency several times within a market or given operating area. Since a cell phone is capable of operating on various cellular frequencies, unwanted interference may also affect cellular systems in adjacent markets or operating areas.

  13. Re:Not Trolling? on Openwall Linux 3.0 — No SUIDs, Anti-Log-Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Security through (or by) obscurity is a pejorative referring to a principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy (of design, implementation, etc.) to provide security.[citation needed]

  14. Re:Not working here on Hidden Backdoor Discovered On HP MSA2000 Arrays · · Score: 1

    According to a comment on the original article:
    Try 'manage' as the username.

  15. Re:What a ____ on FedEx Misplaces Radioactive Rods · · Score: 1

    Caution! Dangerous Chemicals!

    Cuidado! Caramelo que es delicioso!

    I do not speak Spanish, but your comment still did not look right, so off to Google Translate.
    Sure enough, ... I fell on the floor laughing.
    Dare I say mod-parent-funny.

  16. Re:Inexpensive 3rd Party Solution on SSL Certificates For Intranet Sites? · · Score: 1

    I use StartSSL for tens of certificates on all manner of internet and intranet sites.
    I had to install their root certificate on Windows 2000, but any computer that gets regular windows updates should have had it since last year.

    They don't charge for certificates, they charge for work a person has to do: verifications.
    Meaning, if they have to call you, it will cost, but you can get regular certificates for free.

  17. Mint.com on US Banks That Offer Transaction History? · · Score: 1

    Give mint.com your bank info, they download and store the transaction history for you, and from there you can download it when ever you want.

  18. Re:Production cost on India's $35 7-Inch Android Tablet To Hit In January · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wasn't a problem with the brakes. Was a problem with the floor mats.

    Wasn't a problem with either. Was a problem with the driver

    As anyone in computer support knows, the most common error code is "ID-10T".
    If you prefer, a "layer-8" problem.
    Could be known in this case as "PICNIC" (here meaning Problem In Chair, Not In Car).
    The automotive technician version: "loose nut between the steering wheel and the seat"
    I could almost go on about this all day.

  19. Re:WebTV on Chase Bank May Drop Support of Chrome, Opera · · Score: 1
    The last release was "MSN TV2" in 2004. Microsoft now says on the MSN TV (WebTV) site:

    Sorry, MSN TV hardware is no longer available for purchase from Microsoft. Microsoft continues to support the subscription service for existing WebTV and MSN TV customers.

  20. We are staying on XP on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would live to migrate on of my offices to Windows 7, but then they would need to buy all-new hardware, sinc ewhat they have will not support Windows 7.
    Also, they use an old version of Navison Axapta (since renamed to Microsoft Dynamics AX) which has issues on newer OS versions.

  21. Gizmodo on Apple Announces iPhone 4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anything about this being the same as the Gizmodo prototype?

  22. Re:Yay ignorance. on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    The problem is that nothing can be "forced" into any TLD.
    While there are some TLDs, such as EDU and COOP which are restricted to particular uses, general use TLDs such as COM will not (and can not) turn anyone away.
    List of TLDs with notes about restrictions

  23. This should have been seen from the start on Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As most people who have tried to write a blog can testify, it is hard to maintain a procedure by force; the reason why so many new blogs are abandoned. If the culture at Microsoft is anti open-source, it will take a constant effort to continue this type of project. The power was obviously not there.

  24. Re:Sure they can on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    Some browsers do a DNS lookup first in case you are on an intranet. At my office (and anyone who uses SBS) we use this purposely: http://companyweb/

  25. Re:Sure they can on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    Slightly off-topic, but ... A relevant first post is hard to come by, so I tried very hard to get it out quickly.